Friday, June 3, 2011

Brazil .- Rousseff presents 'Brazil without Poverty', a plan to end extreme poverty

BRASILIA, 3 Jun. The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, presented on Thursday, the program "Brazil without Poverty ', with which it intends to draw from extreme poverty to more than 16 million people. This plan is considered the main project of the Brazilian Government. Rousseff believes that before the term of his immediate predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had not paid enough attention to the issue of poverty.

The Syrian opposition attempts to organize

Antalya (Turkey), Special Envoy - "Freedom!" Freedom! ". Under the palm trees of the garden of a luxury hotel in the resort of Antalya in southern Turkey, dozens of Syrians protest improvise a fist or forefinger, watched dumbfounded tourists Russian or British. Slogans hostile to the regime in Damascus and its leader, Bashar al-Assad, are the same as those that undermine Syria for more than two months.

Japanese Prime Minister than censure motion

Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, survived a censure motion in Parliament on Thursday to offer his resignation once it has overcome the worst nuclear crisis in the country in a last-minute deal with the rebels in his party that threatened to topple him . Kan's offer of giving you time to prepare an extra budget to fund the cost of reconstruction of the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, but surely not solve the country's prolonged political paralysis.

The children of the Duea de 'Clarin' DNA tests are someterna

The National Chamber of Criminal Appeal (which performs functions similar to the Supreme Court) ordered yesterday that the adopted children of Ernest Noble, owner of the largest media conglomerate in the country, including the newspaper Clarín, are subject to extraction of DNA samples (blood, saliva, hair) to be checked against other samples stored in the National Genetic Data Bank (BNDG) and determine whether they are children of people "disappeared" during the military dictatorship.

Hassan said the bloody crackdown in Lattakia

Antalya (Turkey), Special Envoy - Arriving at the border between Syria to Turkey, Hassan was ready to die. "I showed my passport. I was stuck. I was expecting to be arrested. The Syrian cop looked at me in a terrible manner. I told him: 'Either you let me pass, or you kill me here. But if you want to kill me, let me make one last prayer.

" The cop threw me my passport and said, 'Get out and do not come back! "So Hasan said to be out of Syria, hounded, harassed, considered one of the leaders of the uprisings in the city of Latakia in the north-west. In a soft voice, this young 29 year old Syrian, who attended the meeting of the Syrian opposition of Antalya, said his flight.

The army opened fire on demonstrators in Yemen

Yemeni security forces have used bursts of live ammunition to disperse a demonstration on Thursday evening in the capital, Sanaa, according to reports from witnesses of this repression, however, no casualties were initially reported. The city has seen in recent days of violent clashes between the militias of tribal leader Sadeq al-Ahmar and forces loyal to President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The Syrian security forces accused of crimes against humanity Deraa

"Crimes against humanity were committed in Syria during the repression of demonstrations in the town of Dera, according to the NGO Human Rights Watch. In a statement, HRW said that information about "systematic killings and torture by Syrian security forces in Dera since the protests began there March 18, indicate that these can be described as crimes against humanity ".

The organization published a report entitled "We've never seen such a horror," based on over 50 interviews with victims and witnesses. She says these stories are largely unpublished and yet very difficult to confirm because the information flow is blocked by the authorities. They describe systematic killings, beatings, torture with electric shocks and detention of people when they needed medical care.